[Lowfer] Government Mandated Noise ???

[John D]

Good and timely information on the Feit Electric daylight CFLs, Mike.  Need 
to see if I can find some.  I'd been looking to replace the floodlamps in my 
outdoor motion-sensing fixture because every leaf that blows past (and we 
have a LOT of wind in Kansas) presently lights up a pair of 75 watt lamps 
for up to 5 minutes, and the CFL floodlamp replacements I'd seen in the 
stores didn't look too promising.

It might be worth mentioning to anyone considering CFLs in photocell 
controlled fixtures...an all-on/all-off (ie, relay operated) switch is OK, 
as motion-sensing fixtures also use.  All you have to worry about in that 
case is the weather resistance of the lamp.  However, some very simple 
photocell fixtures are basically just LASCRs, whose output is proportional 
to the "available darkness" and is therefor not always the full cycle of the 
AC waveform.  That's very bad for the electronics in the lamps and is not 
great from an RF perspective, either.